Re: Introduction thread
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:17 pm
Truly, you're infected. Welcome! 
So me? Who am I? Name's Pete, 36, living a suburb in the southern parts of Stockholm called Tumba.
So Hey peeps. I'm a passionate if not to say obsessed reader and avid collector of John's books and audio books. And well - whatever else I can come across relating to our hero - For me it all started by the place I lived and wandered about - at around 2004 - the coming of the Let the right one (slip) in - Swedish version, that is - I used to live in a small part of Western Stockholm called Grimsta - I had quite a few friends in Blackeberg + there was a kokosboll (chocolate-coated marshmallow treat covered in coconut-flakes) factory called Lincals - used to be the most popular brand for us sweet-tooths out there - that was situated on the back side of a certain building on Ibsengatan. So when I heard the story was about a street I walked by like every day - I just had to check it out. Me, being into Stephen King and his likes - and mostly despicing anything that was even Novel-ish in the Swedish language . I gave it a shot,
...and I couldn't put it down. So after obsessing about knowing EXACTLY where Eli supposedly lived - I had a friend who would have been a next-door neighbor to Eli. And No-one around me really cared - except my girlfriend - who became almost as infatuated as I did... I forgot about it - but didn't love it less. Then came the next boom. "Hanteringen av odöda" ie "Handling the undead" was actually played out EXACTLY where I lived in Grimsta. Now THAT was creepy - I looked out over that Cemetary / Crematory EVERY single day. Need I say I had nightmares. JAL hit every spot he could possibly find in me in that story.
Since then I have simply been hooked. I have bought everything where a story was first printed - apart from a few daily papers which had "Tindalos" and "Gubbens hus" - later to be known as "Antikrundan" in the Swedish version of LTODD. I do have a lot *where's the "Show your collection" thread*
Including a few random art books he debuted some short stories in - that later came out in LTODD. Fav novel / short story would be "Speciella omständigheter" - amazing really creepy short mini novel pretty recently released. Closely followed by Rörelsen which nearly made me pee my pants - and the tie-ins to Himmelstrand are brilliant too...can't wait for X.
